Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

Swami Vivekananda

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

Timur Bekmambetov

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

Tim Hetherington

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Tim Heidecker

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Thurgood Marshall

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

Thomas Woods

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

Robert Andrews Millikan

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Robert A. Heinlein

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

Robert A. Heinlein

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

Rirkrit Tiravanija

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

Tim Allen

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

Tiger Woods

I like the idea of being a role model. It's an honor.

Steven Wright

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

Steven Sater

When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.

Steven Soderbergh

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

Steven Soderbergh

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

Steven Soderbergh

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

Steven Soderbergh

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Steven Soderbergh

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

Steven Spielberg

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

Steven Spielberg

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

Richard Cobden

I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look upon to be an absurdity; the currency should regulate itself; it must be regulated by the trade and commerce of the world; I would neither allow the Bank of England nor any private banks to have what is called the management of the currency.

Reggie Jackson

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

Robert Bresson

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

Tom Shadyac

You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.

Tom Kelley

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Tom Hodgkinson

We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

Toni Morrison

I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.